In exchange, Finnegan, a Pelican Circle resident, gave Monte $1,320, said police.

Both suspects were charged with felony and misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan. Monte is also accused of felony criminal drug sale.

Monte has served two prison stints, according to online records of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

In 1994, he was convicted on Staten Island of two counts of burglary and sentenced to three to nine years behind bars, those records show.

He was later convicted, in an unrelated case on the Island, of felony drug possession and sentenced in January 2009 to 18 months in prison.